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1 day ago · Those annual meetings—or “witches Sabbath” as Gamow dubbed them—brought some of the most prominent scientific figures of the time to Foggy Bottom, including Enrico Fermi and Robert Oppenheimer himself. At the 1939 conference, Nobel Prize winner Bohr announced the splitting of the uranium atom—ushering in the Atomic Age.
1 day ago · J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; / ˈɒpənhaɪmər / OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project 's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.
2 days ago · His extension of Enrico Fermi's theory of beta decay, in the form of Gamow–Teller transitions, provided an important stepping stone in its application, while the Jahn–Teller effect and the Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) theory have retained their original formulation and are still mainstays in physics and chemistry.
3 days ago · Made to celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of the French Revolution, the 360-minute Robert Enrico and Richard T. Heffron film was an international production, boasting a cast which included Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jane Seymour and Peter Ustinov.
1 day ago · Combining Response and Toxicity Data to Implement Project Optimus. The following represents disclosure information provided by authors of this manuscript. All relationships are considered compensated unless otherwise noted. Relationships are self-held unless noted. I = Immediate Family Member, Inst = My Institution.
5 days ago · American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer headed the Manhattan Project, with the goal of developing the atomic bomb, and Edward Teller was among the first recruited for the project. Leo Szilard and Enrico Fermi built the first nuclear reactor.
5 days ago · Le Vieux Fusil est un film de Robert Enrico. Synopsis : Julien est chirurgien à Montauban. Effrayé par l'invasion allemande de 1944, il envoie sa fille et sa femme dans...